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Thursday, December 11, 2008
So the rest of the day finished out great. Today the students took a quiz on verbs and nouns. Just from looking at some of them I think I'm going to have to redo the quiz. I'm going to have to remind them that most of the time there is more than one noun in the sentence. Look for that in homework next week. Speaking of homework we will be working on vowel patterns ee and ea next week for spelling words. Today I showed them a really neat science experiment I found on youtube to demonstrate force and gravity. Go to the below link to see it for yourself. That way you can do it at home.
So far today has been a little hectic. This morning I had a meeting that lasted until 8:30 and therefore that made the kids have to stand in the hallway for an extra 5 minutes, which made them a little wild. They came in the classroom very chatty. After they got settled down (me saying okay now you are supposed to be taking out your morning work notebook) they got to it. The students had to put words in alphabetical order. This seems to be a task that we are definitely going to have to practice a lot. Especially when the first two or three letters are the same. Something that you could practice at home. I'll try to put something like that in each day so that you know what you can do at home to help your child. :) Today we didn't get to centers because it was a reading test day. They had to listen to a story and answer questions about it. Then they had to read a level J (where your child should be right now) and answer the questions about that story. Both of them were nonfiction and so therefore a little more difficult to read and comprehend. Try to expose your child to nonfiction as well as fiction. Most books you buy in the bookstores are fiction, but if you ask the salesclerk they can point in the right direction to get some nonfiction books for your child that are on their level.
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